Herb Kohl

Herbert H. "Herb" Kohl (7 February 1935-) was a member of the US Senate from Wisconsin (D) from 3 January 1989 to 3 January 2013, succeeding William Proxmire and preceding Timmy Baldwin.

Biography
Herb Kohl was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 7 February 1935, the son of a Polish-Jewish immigrant father and a Russian-Jewish immigrant mother. Kohl graduated from the University of Wisconsin and the Harvard Business School, and he served in the US Army Reserve from 1958 to 1964. He worked as a real estate and stock market investor after finishing graduate school, and he founded Kohl Investments. In 1970, he became President of Kohl's, then only eight years old; it would become one of the most successful department stores in the United States. In 1985, he purchased the Milwaukee Bucks, and he retained ownership until 2014. From 1989 to 2013, Kohl served in the US Senate as a Democratic Party politician, and he supported the 2001 tax cuts, progressive taxation, welfare reform, environmentalism, the right to choose, the abolition of the death penalty, affirmative action, better relations with Cuba, public education, trade normalization with China, and reduced military spending.